Bill O'Reilly on confronting evil (09-15-2025--Hour1)

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It thanks hadding me back? How you bet? H Well, I mean, it's been a it's been a last three weeks here since the murder of the woman on our train here in Charlotte and then that went national with the release of the video, and then of course Charlie Kirk's assassination. But it's been it's been tough, and I know you've talked about actually both of those, Charlie Kirk and Arena Zeruska. And I was watching your program the other day and you mentioned the magistrate who turned to Carlos Brown loose with with no bail, and you said that she enabled evil. And you were talking in the context of your latest book now, which is called Confronting Evil, Assessing the Worst of the Worst and so what so you'll read on it is that she enabled evil and that evil walks among us and has you know since the beginning, but you believe it's on the rise. Yes, the judge's got to go. By the way, I'm doing a follow up on No Spin News tonight, access off Bill O'Reilly dot com. But it's everywhere she's got to go. And the reason is that she had options to keep this guy confined. And when you are at it, admitted schizophrenic and you beat up your sister and you have fourteen arrests. You don't put a man like that back on the street. Now, they're playing games in Charlotte. The district court is saying, oh, we're investigating and all, you know, but they usually do ceya. So I'm going to put up an address of the governor of North Carolina tonight on my program. I'm going to say, look, if you have any desire to promote good in this country, you need to contact this governor and tell him he has to insert himself into this case because this woman riding on the US in Charlotte. We can't have that in America. We just can't have it. It wasn't a random killing in the sense that it was unpredictable. It was very predictable because of who this guy was. He was in the criminal justice system. The judge, for whatever reason, never explains yourself. Of course lets him out and he slaughters the woman. Well, the judge has a responsibility, and that's what the governor has to He has to. Yeah, I'm not going to hold my breath on that. Given John, then he's. Got to pay a political poes. Yeah, you know. I mean, look, if the good people of North Carolina feel the way that I do and you do, then the next time there's an election, you've got to go for the law enforcement candidates period. Well, I think we're going to see an interesting test of that too next year when Roy Cooper, who was the Attorney General for four term sixteen years, governor for another two terms of eight years, and you know, in the summer of fiery but mostly peaceful riots, that Cooper went ahead and did this racial justice equity task for stuff, and they implemented a lot of this quote soft on crime stuff. And so I think we'll see a test of it as to whether or not voters will punish somebody for the kind of lawlessness that has become far too I think acceptable. Well, because that's the big part of the exposing evil and confronting it situation. You've got to use your vote. And here in New York City where I am, it's insane. Yeah, we're just about to elect a mayor that won't enforce a lot at all. Yeah, and where do you see the bodiespile up? Yeah? Well, and he's he go distance. Himself from work. Comes a point where I'm hoping the good people out number the bad people in America, and in some areas they do, and in some areas they don't. Trimble Is that so we've talked about this before. You were also a history teacher right earlier in life, and you mentioned the book here, and I do appreciate and I've complimented you on this before, but I'll say it again and that you are a communicator. And the way you write your books make me feel smart because I can read them very quickly because I'm a very slow reader. And so I always appreciate that the way you tell the story obviously comes from a communications background and expertise, and so the stories that they are approachable, they're captivating, it's intriguing, it's fast paced, and you cover all sorts of evil people. In this book. And you say that the book tells us how evil gains strength, who helps these people? Who stays silent? And I mean, you go over some of the baddies in history. Were there any that that that didn't make it into the book that you had to cut or anything? Or was this was this the full? The full? Look? No, we're going to put Paul Pott in their idiom mean a whole bunch of people, but every person, all fifteen evildoers, they're four on the cover. Prudent. I had toolaholmany now and Hitler and then there are eleven in the pages in addition to those guys, and they all The reason I chose them was because they are relevance to today. They all link into today, whereas a Paul Pott in Cambodia, a horrible, heinous mass murderer, didn't have any effect on American life. So that's why I chose these guys. And as far as our writing style is concerned, we're the most the best selling nonfiction authors in the world now. And because I know how busy people are, I know it takes a while to get through most books, but not mine. You can read my books. They'll keep you up at night. And we do that because we do it on purpose. We want to arrest your attention, get to the point, because we know you don't have a lot of discretionary time. I'm talking to you, the American people, and so the form has worked very well. But the importance of this book is it came out last Tuesday, Peter, and then on Wednesday, I wake up and put his lobbin drones and missiles into Poland Ultra dangerous, ultra dangerous. And then a few hours later, Charlie Kirk is assassinated and it's almost like I'm Nostra Damosphere confronting evil because evil is on the rise, and if we look away, and many of us do, it's going to get worse and worse and worse. So what connection. I think you also said this on your YouTube show, the No Spin News, that the incendiary rhetoric that this helps to fomenter it leads to evil. You were commenting about the comments that were made on the view, and what I kept thinking of was Rwanda Radio and how they're whipping up on their broadcast, whipped up a genocide essentially, And I wonder if the last decade of that kind of incendiary rhetoric here in America also played played a role in the violence that we saw against Charlie Kirk. I don't know it was the rhetoric as much as social media. Now you can put that under the rhetoric category. But the initial investigation of the alleged fashion is that he spent a lot of time on the dark pages of the Internet. And there is real danger, real danger because you have unstable people, some of them mentally ill. There's no accountability, it all none, and if you're living in there, if that's where you're going for your hobby or for your information, whatever it may be, and that dark world starts to become your world. Then you start to become delusional. And this is what mental illness is. Now. Miller's does not excuse evil because the guy knew what he was doing. The guy in Utah gets the rifle, goes up on a platform and executes mister Kirk. He knew exactly what he was doing, but just the fact that he would do it shows that he was mentally ill. However, he's culpable. He'll never see the light of day again. I don't know whether they'll execute him in Utah, but I believe they probably will. But even as the case plays out, the damage is already done to the Kirk family and to the shooter's own family. This shooter destroyed his own family. His mother and father and brothers still never ever recover from this. And that's what evil does. It just spreads out and anybody it touches gets affected for a lifetime. And so many people don't understand that. They don't want it's too unpleasant to look at it. And that's why this book Confronting Evil is so important. People can catch Bill's work Bill O'Reilly dot com. The YouTube show also no Spin News And did you say no spin news dot com? Is that also your site? No, it's Jilly dot com And then you can track down how you can get the nose spin News. We also have a phenomenally successful YouTube channel which is really getting a lot of younger and worldwide views. It's YouTube dot YouTube dot com slash Bill O'Reilly YouTube dot com slash Bill O'Reilly and I put a lot of stuff in fact, I'm going to just record something in about an hour about the repercussions of the Kirk assassination that's going to change things in America and that the people who are the most hateful are going to have to go under ground. They just fire a Washington Post reporter, They fired a guy from MSNBC. Major companies are firing personnel all over the place that are acting out in hateful ways. And I don't like to see anybody's life altered like that. But you've got to stop the hate. We have a stop. There's a police chief in Durham, North Carolina that posted about this not too pleasant. It has been shocked. Are you surprised how many educators are reacting the way they've been reacting. No. Yeah, because those educators have been poisoned by ideology. They live in a bubble. Yeah, they don't live in the real world, the educators. Look, I attended Harvard. When I was at Harvard getting a master's degree, it wasn't nearly as bad as it is now. But eighty two percent of the people who teach at Harvard are left, far left. They never hear the other side. They don't have any respect for the other side. They live in a bubble. They tell themselves all as garbage that isn't true. Nobody challenges them, so I'm not surprised at all. Yeah, you know, you create. You can create your own world in America now, and that's very dangerous. Reader's work, Bill O'Reilly dot com. Check out the YouTube channel as well. Bill, thank you for your time. As always, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me in. Peter really appreciate it. Thank you, Yes, sir, take care. All right, you hear me talk a lot about incentives, right, Well, let's talk about incentive trips, the kind that companies offer employees to fire them up and reward their teams. If you own a business or somewhere that offers these incentive trips. 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He will be truly missed, and that is one of the things. There has been an explosion on social media followers and views of all sorts of videos of Charlie Kirk going to these college campuses and having these debates and such, and so more and more people are now being exposed to the content that he actually created and the views that he actually held, and not the twisted, bastardized versions that you see quoted out of context by leftists who are giddy that he was assassinated. And I'm also told that there is a memorial tonight at seven o'clock in Monroe. That's all the information I saw about that. And again another please remind people there is a walk tonight at seven o'clock Monroe, North Carolina for Charlie. You don't know any of the details. The first I've heard of it, So if you have details, send them along. I'm happy to convey it. But I don't know the details of it. What else we know more about the murderer. We know more about his roommate slash romantic partner, a dude who began identifying as a female, and they were apparently in a relationship. This person's name is Lance Twigs, twenty two years old, lived with the accused assassin in an apartment in Saint George, Utah, about four hours from Utah Valley University, where Kirk was murdered. Andy No reporting on Twigs's social media history, which most of it remains online, went by various names on various accounts, but andy No and other Internet salutes have been tracking it down. Not going to go over all of the different names that this person used, but they changed. He changed his preferred display name on the gaming platform Steam, which is where you buy games and stuff, and you know, there are store like every game has a store page, and people write reviews and that sort of stuff. But you have a profile on there, and you can change your your name, and he apparently did change his name in December from Lance to Luna. A search of Reddit, another website which is just a cesspool search of Reddit for user names connected to his Steam user name history revealed a match, with the display name being the same. Biographical details also line up with Lance Twigs. That account was highly active on one of the subreddit uh channels or rooms if you will, for tran, not four chan, the frog pepe, the frog meme troll guys, not four chan, it's a whole different website, but for tran, which discusses transgender stuff. Yes, Twigs on this subreddit posted about his anxiety with injecting cross sex hormones, and then said at one point in one post Trump winning has motivated me to finally fix my life. I won't let the idiot CIS fags who want me to be miserable win. I'll be independent, fit, happy, and trans and they can't stop me. So I kind of feel like there's a connection to the transgender radicals. Maybe I don't know. We may never know. Game on Week one starts now, and every touchdown brings you closer to a payout. 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This guy named Lance Twiggs was raised in a devout Mormon family, but said he left the faith. He posted on a subreddit ex Christian is the name of the subreddit, and he claimed he was expelled from his family home after refusing religious spiritual help. Twiggs was mentioned in the Utah criminal complaint against the murderer as an unnamed roommate who cooperated with investigators after being contacted. The shooter allegedly sent his trans partner messages related to the shooting. Surveillance video of the suspected gunman near the campus shows him appearing to communicate with somebody on his phone. Twiggs has not been accused of any crime at this time. Axios reports that investigators are examining whether radical leftist groups in Utah played a role in the alleged assassination plan. One unnamed group had scrubbed its social media after the shooting, Like immediately after the shooting, they just like they newked their social media accounts. Washington Free Beacon reporting that the FBI is investigating social media posts made by at least seven different accounts that appear to indicate for knowledge of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and almost all of them are non binary trans They follow Lance Twigs, they're friends of his on a social media platform of some kind, so that continues. They have DNA found on the towel that was used to wrap up the gun. That's according to FBI director Cash Patel, who told this to Fox News this morning. I believe it was that they got DNA off of the off of that towel, and they also got DNA off of a screwdriver that was at the where the gunman had set up on the top of the roof. I assume that's that the screwdriver is meant to be able to, like, you know, try to gain access to a door or something if need be, and so they got his DNA off of that as well. Contrary to the initial reports, he is not cooperating with law enforcement. He's not talking to them, So the investigation continues. There was well, let me do this. Rob Henderson is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He's the author of a book called Troubled, a memoir of foster care, family and social class, and he has a piece posted at The Times dot Com headlined what the death of Charlie Kirk means for the American Left. He says, the fact that Kirk was killed at a college campus while speaking his mind shows how dangerous it's become to share your views in public. Kirk's life and his death will be felt far beyond his own movement. What will endure is Kirk's example, particularly his belief in debate, free speech, and challenging prevailing orthodoxies with words rather than violence. As Ezra Kline pointed out at The New York Times, Kirk did politics the right way. He believed in dialogue, He believed in debate. He believed in persuasion rather than coercion. But more and more people no longer trust the Enlightenment ideal that words can resolve disagreements. Their view goes something like this, everything you believe. Maybe I should say his dude, like everything you believe, man was like invented by someone. Your ideas the books you read, even the words you speak, they were all made by people with their own interests. In blind spots, the values of speech and open inquiry carry the fingerprints of the society. He's the championed them. And so from this point of view, they conclude that nobody can give an objective account of reality. There is no neutral truth. Every political system was designed by somebody with some hidden agenda. It is one thing to admit that we're all biased but still try to be fair. But it's another to give up on truth entirely and simply impose your will on others. And this gets to the ideals of the Enlightenment, which held that every person has worth. Western nations have often fallen short of this ideal, to be sure, but we forget how radical it was that this idea took hold at all. Beliefs about human dignity have become so common that we now take them for granted. This is what is meant by American exceptionalism. It's that we were the exception, he says. People forget that a piece society that allows disagreement about important issues is actually a deviation from the historical norm, and it can be lost very quickly, and that is what is being chipped away right now. And those tearing it down may not like what comes next. I would say you will not like what comes next, because then it's whoever has the most power will shut up everybody else. That's the other way this goes, right, the use of force to silence dissent. That's the way it has always been. Western society is the outlier in this regard that every person has worth. That in America, your speech is protected because you are a child of God, that you are endowed by the Creator with that inalienable right, and you get to participate in your own governance, and you don't get to be silenced because you have a different opinion. The assassin's veto, the Heckler's veto, these are things that Western society that America has rejected. Unfortunately, we have now become all too aware that there are a great many people that we thought we knew that don't actually share that ideal, if they even have paid it any mind whatsoever. So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my mom and my dad took care of him as he got worse, Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family. But things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with huge hearts. 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For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. This is why we walk. Danny in Waxaw said that I could do successful voiceovers for the next making of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Thank you. The tribute event for Charlie Kirk is in downtown Monroe at seven pm, Downtown Munroe. That is the way you say that, all right, So let me play this clip here. This is Rob Henderson again. He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, author of the book Troubled, a memoir of foster care, family and social class, and in this piece at the Times dot com, he says violence as a response to disagreement is natural, which is precisely why it must be repeatedly condemned. A twenty twenty three study from psychologist Christopher di Petsko and Nur Katilie uncovered something troubling about how Americans see one another. Conservatives tend to view liberals as immature, irresponsible, gullible, and irrational like children. Liberals in turn, tend to see conservatives as savage, aggressive, cold hearted, barbaric. Lit bit of a different take there, here's Rob Henderson. People with narcissistic and or psychopathic personality traits are attracted to certain ideologies and forms of political activism. They use activism as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego focused needs instead of actually working towards social justice. And I think we're seeing this across the political spectrum that people who have vicious personality traits, you know, high on what are known as the dark triad or now sometimes people will refer to the dark tetrad narcissism, psychopathy, machiavlianism, and then if you use the dark tetrad model, there's sadism. People who are high on these traits will essentially hijack movements for their own twisted ends, and you know, allows them to disguise their ugly motives with some you know benevolence, some you know moral camouflage, but in fact they're using it for to bolster their own sense of admiration, respect, prestige, and so on. And this is why you know it's a mistake. I think to use the most extreme and vicious individuals as representative. Most people are not very high on these trades, but the ones who are have a megaphone. They enjoy attention, they enjoy courting, controversy, They post a lot, they share a lot, They love to hear themselves speak. So you know, it's worth being aware of that kind of classic one percent role of social media. That one percent of people post the majority of the content you see online, nine percent will comment or engage with that material, post content in some way, and then ninety percent of people are mostly just lurkers. Is not really contributing to the discussion at all. I guess I'm the nine percent because I do, like I don't generate a lot of content, but I do reply and retweet and such. But note what he said there all across the political spectrum because the ideology doesn't necessarily matter. This is where you get into the woke right stuff and people are like, what does that mean? I don't understand. It's the same sort of personality type that takes control of particular movements because they have power. That's the point. The ideology is secondary. They can learn whatever the language is necessary to justify their presence or their leadership of a particular movement or idea. That's all secondary. The key is that they're fulfilling their own internal psychological needs and they will use these movements, they will hijack them. And you're seeing it on the right, and you're definitely seeing it on the left, and that's why you need to call it out when it's on either side. 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